The AHMA is awarded annualy to a personality or organization committed to the memorial of the crimes of National Socialism und thereby sets within the universality of this injustice and its consequences an example for all mankind

The head of the Cultural Policy Section of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Emil Brix, reaffirmed that the Holocaust research must remain a global task:

„Especially in a situation when some voices want to historicize and relativize these crimes, it is an important signal that an Austrian NGO donates such a price.